Abstract
In this paper the difference between an architect's idea or ‘vision’ and its production through the plan is examined in some detail, using the work of the architect Le Corbusier as exemplar. One of Le Corbusier's more persistent ideas concerned the use of architecture to frame the view to the horizon—an idea that is acknowledged as a key aspect of the architect's thinking. For Le Corbusier, the experience of viewing the horizon took on a heightened subjective quality compared to other kinds of viewing and it was clearly an experience to be exploited and manipulated in architectural tenns. This paper begins with an extended discussion of Le Corbusier's concept of the horizon, as described in the architect's polemical writings, before dealing with the concept of the horizon a second time—as that concept which is constructed and mediated through techniques of the plan.
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